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Certain people should not get a nasal spray flu vaccine, including the 2009 H1N1 nasal spray vaccine. This includes:

• People younger than 2 years of age;
  
  
• Pregnant women;
  
  
• People 50 years of age and older;
  
  
• People with a medical condition that places them at higher risk for complications from influenza, including those with chronic heart or lung disease, such as asthma or reactive airways disease; people with medical conditions such as diabetes or kidney failure; or people with illnesses that weaken the immune system, or who take medications that can weaken the immune system;
  
  
• Children younger than 5 years old with a history of recurrent wheezing;
  
  
• Children or adolescents receiving aspirin therapy;
  
  
• People who have had Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a rare disorder of the nervous system, within 6 weeks of getting a flu vaccine,
  
  
• People who have a severe allergy to chicken eggs or who are allergic to any of the nasal spray vaccine components.

No. The nasal-spray flu vaccine is approved for use only in healthy* people 2 years to 49 years of age who are not pregnant.

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